Thomas Clarke Luby

Thomas Clarke Luby (16 January 1822-29 November 1901) was an Irish revolutionary and one of the founders of the Irish Republican Brotherhood.

Biography
Thomas Clarke Luby was born in Dublin, County Dublin, Ireland in 1822, the son of a Church of Ireland clergyman and his Catholic wife. He worked as a teacher at Trinity College before becoming active in the Repeal Association and the Young Irelanders. In 1851, following the failure of two Irish uprisings. Luby failed to join the French Foreign Legion to learn infantry tactics, and he became an editor for Tribune in 1855 and became a revolutionary nationalist. In 1858, he co-founded the Irish Republican Brotherhood, and he published The Irish People newspaper after 1863. He was arrested in 1865 after the British discovered IRB plans for an uprising, and he was sentenced to twenty years' penal servitude. He was released in 1871, and he emigrated to the United States, settling in New York City and dying in Jersey City in 1901; he was buried at Bayview Cemetery.